No more pool at Pioneer

Walking down Bowery the other day I walked into Pioneer Bar to check out its new interior (the bar has been closed all summer for renovation). First thing I noticed was the plush red lining along the walls behind the cash registers. Then I saw the newly tiled surface of the bar itself. But I was curious to see if the pool table would still be there. I asked a woman cleaning behind the bar if there was going to be a pool table. She left to get somebody else to talk to me as I went to the back area of the bar and didn't see a table. Then a man came from the kitchen and said he didn't know. When I was walking out of the bar there was a guy coming in and I asked him about it. "No, we don't need it," was his reply.